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Jay T. Last Collection of Horticulture Prints and Ephemera: Finding Aid

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Series I. Horticulture Prints and Ephemera (small size) 1840-1933 (bulk 1870-1910)

Physical Description: approximately 1,375 items in 9 binders and 1 flat-top box

Scope and Content

This series contains approximately 1,375 small-size printed items that pertain to or portray imagery of horticulture in the United States from 1840 to 1933. The materials consist of advertising and promotional ephemera, illustrations, and business records related to horticultural industries. The horticulture-affiliated entities represented in this series include nurseries, florists, seed companies and lawn mower manufacturers. Item types include trade cards, catalogs, catalog covers, booklets, seed packets, price lists, and printed billheads and letterheads with and without manuscript text. The materials in this series either promote or are connected to horticulture-related products, services, or sponsoring businesses. Binder 1 is the exception, containing promotional ephemera featuring images of anthropomorphic fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other plants promoting hoticulture-affiliated businesses as well as companies in unrelated industries.

Arrangement

Items smaller than 8 x 10 inches are housed in binders. These items are grouped by business type and/or subject as indicated by the binder names, and are generally arranged alphabetically by merchant.

Items that are between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches in size are individually sleeved and arranged numerically by call number in one box, and select items have been fully cataloged. These items are described in the following format:

Title of print. Date
Artist(s) (when known). Printer(s). Publisher(s).

Binder 1

Anthropomorphic Images (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 285 items

Binder 2

Mowers and Implements, A-Z by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 120 items

Binder 3

Seeds, Nurseries, and Florists, A-B by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 130 items

Binder 4

Seeds, Nurseries, and Florists, C by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 160 items

Binder 5

Seeds, Nurseries, and Florists, D-G by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 150 items

Binder 6

Seeds, Nurseries, and Florists, H-J by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 125 items

Binder 7

Seeds, Nurseries, and Florists, K-O by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 140 items

Binder 8

Seeds, Nurseries, and Florists, P-S by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 135 items

Binder 9

Seeds, Nurseries, and Florists, T-Z by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)

Physical Description: approximately 110 items

Box 1

Horticulture Prints and Ephemera (between 8 x 10 inches and 11 x 14 inches in size)

Physical Description: approximately 20 items

Note

Select items in this box have been fully cataloged and are listed below.

priJLC_HORT_001767 Shakers' dried green sweet corn. 1879-1882

Printers: Crump Label Co.

priJLC_HORT_002471 Roses hare bell and sweet pea. 1848-1850

Printers: Kellogg & Comstock Publishers: Ensigns & Thayer

priJLC_HORT_003546 The specimen book of fruits, flowers and ornamental trees. 1870s

Publishers: Dewey, D. M. (Dellon Marcus), 1819-1889

priJLC_HORT_003547 Choice flower seeds from D. M. Ferry & Co, Detroit, Mich. after 1867

Printers: Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)

priJLC_HORT_003549 J. Leverone & Co. wholesale fruit dealers Cincinnati, O. approximately 1880s

Printers: Richmond & Co.

priJLC_HORT_003550 Wm. Henry Maule, Philadelphia, U.S.A. : A hard times fruit tree offer... after 1877

priJLC_HORT_003557 Men wanted by Sears, Henry & Co., nurserymen, Geneva, N.Y. after 1869

Printers: W.F. Humphrey Press

Series II. Horticulture Prints and Ephemera (large size) approximately 1846-1921 (bulk 1865-1910)

Physical Description: 56 items

Scope and Content

This series contains over 50 large-size printed items related to horticulture in the United States from approximately 1846 to 1921, with the majority of items dating from 1865 to 1910. The series is comprised mainly of lithographed advertising and documentary prints depicting flowers, fruits, vegetables, and trees offered by various seed suppliers.

These materials consist of color-printed, hand-colored, and uncolored images that range in size from approximately 11 x 14 inches to 25 x 35 inches. Notable holdings include prints from seed merchants Briggs & Bro., Crosman Bros., and James Vick of Rochester, New York; D.M. Ferry & Co. of Detroit, Michigan; and Jerome B. Rice & Co. of Cambridge, New York.

Arrangement

Items are arranged numerically by call number and described in the following format:

Title of print. Date
Artist(s) (when known). Printer(s). Publisher(s).

priJLC_HORT_002420

For 1891 Rice's novelties in vegetables. Marblehead mammoth cabbage. 1891